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Re: memory probs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Sat Oct 24 08:59:22 1998

Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:48:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Ken Hsu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have one single 128MB PC100 sdram in my computer, but when i run linux
>> and run 'top', it only reports 64mb memory...  does anyone know why this
>> happens?
>> 
>Read man lilo.conf for more details. I don't remember what exactly u need
>to write there but it is smth like that:
>append=128 
>May be I'm mistaken.

close.  the line you need is:
append="mem=128M"

(or each time you boot just specify:  linux mem=128M)

-dave

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